Ben
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| Pronunciation | Ben |
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| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | "son of my right hand" or "son of" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Benjamin, Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio |
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given name Benjamin (as well as Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio, or Ebenezer, among other names).
Ben (in Hebrew: בֶּן, Son of) forms part of surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham (Hebrew: אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא). The Arabic "Bin" (بن) or "Ibn" (ابن), also meaning "son of" is an obvious cognate.
People with the given name Ben
- Ben (German singer), German singer (Bernhard Albrecht Matthias Lasse Blümel)
- Ben Adams, member of the British boy band A1
- Ben Affleck, American actor and screenwriter
- Ben Barba, Australian Rugby League player
- Ben Barnes (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Bernanke, Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
- Ben Bishop, American professional ice hockey goaltender
- Ben Bova, American science fiction author and editor
- Ben Browder, American actor
- Ben Carson, American surgeon and motivational speaker
- Ben Chase, American football player
- Ben Clime, American football player
- Ben Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Coleman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Cousins, Australian Football League midfielder
- Ben Crenshaw, PGA Tour golfer
- Ben Cross, English actor
- Ben Curtis (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer
- Ben Daley, Australian Rugby League player
- Ben Eager, Canadian professional ice hockey left winger
- Ben Fayot, Luxembourgian politician
- Ben Folds, singer-songwriter
- Ben Garland, American football player
- Ben Gibbard, lead singer from the indie-pop band Death Cab for Cutie
- Ben Gillies, drummer of Silverchair
- Ben Gordon, professional basketball player
- Ben Guez, American baseball player
- Ben Hannant, Australian Rugby League player
- Ben Harper, American musician
- Ben Hogan, PGA Tour golfer
- Ben Helfgott, Polish-born British lightweight weightlifting champion
- Ben Howard, British singer/songwriter
- Ben Hunt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jackson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jeby (Morris Jebaltowsky), American world champion middleweight boxer
- Ben Jelen, singer
- Ben Jonson English poet
- Ben Kasica, American musician, lead guitar player for Christian Rock band Skillet
- Ben Kingsley, British actor
- Ben Kinsella, British murder victim
- Ben Knapen, Dutch politician and journalist
- Ben Kweller, American rock musician
- Ben Leber, Minnesota Vikings linebacker
- Ben Lowe, Australian Rugby League player
- Ben Miller, English actor and comedian
- Ben Moody, American musician
- Ben Roy Mottelson Danish American physicist
- Ben Murdoch-Masila, New Zealand Rugby League player
- Ben Nicholson, English artist
- Ben Ownby, American kidnap victim
- Ben Plucknett (1954–2002), American discus thrower
- Ben Richards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback
- Ben Sahar, Israeli soccer player (Hapoel Tel Aviv & national team)
- Ben Sheets, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ben Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Spijkers, Dutch judoka
- Ben Stein, law professor, economist, writer and actor
- Ben Stiller, American actor, writer and director
- Ben Swagerman, Dutch politician
- Ben Talley, American football player
- Ben Templeton, co-creator of the comic strip Motley's Crew
- Ben Te'o, New Zealand Rugby League player
- Ben Thatcher, English former association football player
- Ben Toledano, lawyer, columnist, and former politician
- Ben Underwood (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Vautier, French Fluxus artist, also known simply as 'Ben'
- Ben Verweij (1895–1951), Dutch footballer
- Ben Wallace, American former professional basketball player who last played for the Detroit Pistons
- Ben Way, English entrepreneur
- Ben Whishaw, English actor
- Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American Olympic swimming champion
- Ben Wong, Hong Kong actor
Fictional characters called Ben
- Ben Harper, major character on comedy series My Family
- Ben Kenobi, major character on the film saga, Star Wars
- Ben Parker, the uncle of Peter Parker (Spider-Man) from Marvel Comics.
- Ben Skywalker, a major character in the Star Wars expanded universe
- Ben Tennyson, protagonist of the Ben 10 media franchise
- Ben Urich, investigative journalist for The Daily Bugle in the Marvel Universe
- Ben Wyatt, character from Parks and Recreation
- Ben, a rat in the eponymous movie, and theme song sung by Michael Jackson on his LP Ben.
- Gentle Ben, a bear featured in an eponymous 1965 novel, and in television and movie adaptations.
- Old Ben, a bear at the center of the William Faulkner story The Bear
- Ben, or Benny, the "1980-something space guy" from The Lego Movie